St. Erasmus
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Erasmus was imprisoned for being Christian, but an angel helped him escaped. He then preached and worked miracles. Idols and temples seemed to be destroyed by his presence. The emperor was not impressed and had Erasmus enclosed in a barrel full of protruding spikes and rolled down a hill, but an angel healed him. Then he was beaten and whipped, then coated with pitch and set alight but still he survived. Finally, he was thrown into prison to starve to death but again he escaped.He was eventually recaptured and tortured. His abdomen was then slit open and his intestines wound around a windlass.
(A windlass is a horizontal barrel supported on vertical posts and turned by a crank so that a rope is wound around the barrel to lift objects. They are used for things like hoisting a ship’s anchors, or a bucket in a well.)
(A windlass is a horizontal barrel supported on vertical posts and turned by a crank so that a rope is wound around the barrel to lift objects. They are used for things like hoisting a ship’s anchors, or a bucket in a well.)
Woodcut, 1460
Woodcut, 1460
Master of the Bergwolken, 1480
Master of the Bergwolken, 1480
Triptych of the Martydom of Saint Erasmus
Triptych of the Martydom of Saint Erasmus
Dieric Bouts, 1460-1464
Dieric Bouts, 1460-1464
Engraving with hand color
Engraving with hand color
from a Flemish prayer book 1500-1525
from a Flemish prayer book 1500-1525
An anonymous painter from the Netherlands, 1474
An anonymous painter from the Netherlands, 1474
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